A tribute blog to my beloved Aqa Moula (TUS). A humble offering of a 'guldasta' of my 50 articles, which I intend to offer as Hadiyah in Shukr. Also some fond memories associated with my life over 50 eventful years.

MOULANA SAATH SAATH

Memories with my Moula over 50 glorious years. The smiling young one between bewe Moulas has witnessed the glorious and eventful 50 years. At the Shabab outing managed to evoke smile on Moula's radiant face, with a silly Chinese skit. At the Star Sporting Club outing got a walk the talk opportunity. Treasured memories.

Thursday, January 23, 2014

WE ARE PROUD OF OUR ISLAMIC HERITAGE

we
are proud of our islamic heritage

In the reign of the FATEMIDE
CALIPHS the annalyst ‘Ayni says that the public library at Cairo contained over
two million works, of which over six thousand treated exclusively of mathematics and astronomy. The scientific spirit of Islam was at its zenith.

At Cairo in the reigns
of Imam Aziz billah & Imam (S.A.) and Hakim bi
- amrillah (S.A.)) there flourished one of the master spirits of the age IBN
YUNUS the inventor of pendulum and the
measurement of time by its oscillation. His great work named after his patron
and Imam-”ZIJ - UL - AKABAR - AL HAKIMI” soon displaced the work of Claudius
Ptolemy. IBN - YUNUS died in 1009 a.c.

The sons of Musa ibn Shakir
who flourished under Mamun and his two immediate successors, calculated the size
of the earth from the measurement of a degree on the shores of the red sea, this at a time when Christian
Europe was asserting the flatness of the globe.

ABUL HASAN invented a
telescope (died 873 a.c.)

AL - BATANI introducer of sine & cosine in
mathematics

BUYIDE AMEER - AZUD UD DOWLA ( Malik Fariskhusru)
built several hospitals and refuges for the orphans in Baghdad. He built
magnificent mausoleums over the kabre mubarak
of Moulana Ali (S.A.) & Imam Husain (S.A.)

HASAN IBN HAITHAM became
renowned for his work in optical
science. His book ‘Balance Of Wisdom’

The first observatory in
Europe was built by the Arabs. The GIRALLD over tower of Seville was erected
under the supervision of the great mathematician Jabir ibn Afiah in 1190 a.c.

ABU MUSA JABIR (the Geber of
Christian writers) is regarded as the father of modern chemistry. He was a
native of Tarus. Ibn Khallikan says - Jabir complied a work of two thousand
pages in which he inserted the problems of his master Imam Jafar as Sadik (S.A.)
which formed 500 treaties.

The oldest surviving Arabic
encyclopedia of medicine the FIRDAUS
AL HIKMA in some respects remains unsurpassed. Ali bin Rabban Al Tabari wrote
this work in the year 850 a.c. and was contemporary of Hunayn bin Ishaq.

Famous Arab Historians were Hamdani - Masudi (author of
such works as Mirat uz Zaman - the mirror of the times & Muruz uz
Zahab) Ibn ul - Athir (authored universal history al - Kamil)

Famous Arab Astronomers
whose observations concerning the equinoxes, the eclipses, the apparitions of
the comets and other celestial phenomena that added greatly to human knowledge
were to name but a few Bin ali - yahya bin Abi Mansur - Mohammad bin Musa
.

AL KINDI wrote two hundred works on various subjects -
arithmetic, geometry, philosophy, optics etc:

ABU MAASHAR (corruped by the
middle ages europeans into Albumazar) made celestial phenomena his special
study . Tables of Abu Maashar has remained always chief source of astronomical
knowledge.

ALBATANI (the Albategnius of medieval Europe) was another distinguishedastronomer. His Tables translated into Latin
furnished the ground work of astronomy inEurope for many centuries. The Banu Amajur were noted for their
calculation of the lunar movement.

ALKOHI under the patronage of the Buyides studied
the movements of the planets. His discoveries concerning the summer solstice
and the autumnal equinox were extremely
important.

HASSAN BIN HAISEM (Haithem)
commonly called in Europe Alhazen is famous for his discovery of atmospheric refraction.He was born in Spain
but resided in Egypt and flourished in the eleventh century.

IBN SINA (Avicenna) was
undoubtedly one of the greatest thinkers and physicians the world has produced.
ABU NASAR FARABI (Alfarabius) was called by the Arabs the second Aristotle.

About Me

Being born a Saggitarius,I try to live by the dictates of my stars - that is to say, I like to clown around, avoid morons, look forward to meet interesting and charming persons. Social work is a passion and takes precedence over every thing,it gives me a 'high'without getting into trouble with the long arm of the law. In the words of K.Geetha Menon
I was born in a crack in the concrete,
Sun and rain alternated,
I became a botanist's dream.
Yet the guilllotine is awaited by me,
For the palce of my birth, was not the coveted pot !!!